In this episode of "Try to Control Your Shock and Amazement"...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday said that federal investigators have refused to cooperate with state officials conducting their own investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which occurred Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham — after signing an executive order earlier this week authorizing Florida's attorney general to open a criminal investigation into the incident — DeSantis said the feds have rebuffed state officials several times. 

The answer is "no," they’re not being cooperative. I am concerned. For example, we were rebuffed, our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

The governor told Ingraham he believes the Biden-Harris administration opposed Florida's investigation.

But here’s the thing, there were multiple violations of Florida law across multiple jurisdictions. We think at least three judicial circuits, this guy … committed potential violations of Florida law. So we have a duty to investigate this. We have a duty to bring the appropriate charges and we also have a duty to inform the public about how this happened.

So as soon as we got word of this on Sunday, I told our guys in state law enforcement, save all his social media because you know Facebook will delete it, the tech companies want to delete it. Get his digital trail, store that, because we need to know, how did he end up in Florida to begin with? What is this pathway this guy has taken to end up in those bushes trying to assassinate the former president of the United States and current Republican nominee? How did that happen?

There are more questions than answers, which remains precisely the case with the first assassination against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Why? Great unanswered question, which only leads to more public skepticism. 

Tonight I joined Laura Ingraham to discuss Florida’s investigation into the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/k0OyUJDvr7

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) September 19, 2024

DeSantis referred to the Butler shooting as part of the reason for his initial concern about the lack of cooperation from federal investigators.

And we have not gotten answers about Butler. We have not gotten answers about things like that Las Vegas shooting from many years ago. So part of the investigation that our folks are doing is they are going to provide evidence they find of motive, evidence of his associations, and evidence of his beliefs. I think it is very important that the public to get the real story on that.

It is very important — for multiple reasons. But it's also part and parcel of more than three-and-a-half years of the worst administration in U.S. history.

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Ironically, or perhaps in a bit of poetic justice for the Biden-Harris administration, the refusal of federal investigators to cooperate with the Florida investigation into the "incident" at Trump's golf club can only lead to further distrust among the public, which is in part why DeSantis ordered the state investigation.